Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
No. He was underwhelming purely because of the plot device that is Hydaelyn's blessing. Just like with every other antagonist in the game so far, really. How I long for a battle akin to Beatrix from FFIX where the WoL gets thrashed for a change.
You sure about that? gaius hasn't had a successful campaign ever since the agrius crashed and was once the most respected commander in the empire but ended up losing the emperor's favor to a theatrical madman. He was exiled from garlemald for disobeying a retreat order and tried to retake eorzea as a last desperate attempt to obtain his glory back. By the time of his death he was an old washed up commander who'd even get an acsians help to complete his mission, I'm sure gaius 15 years ago wouldn't of even considered that. I also don't think we even got hydaelyns blessing until the ultima segments, against gaius himself it was just us and the other 7 (mercenaries?) we brought with us.